THE COWARDICE OF SALMAN KHURSHID Why did the foreign policy establishment behave so autistically on Snowden? Was it a feeling that freedom and dissent were local commodities without global value? Was it fear of UK and USA which can freely offer asylum to dictators and hoodlums while we slink away to be labeled as the only regime to approve of Obama? We refused asylum to Julian Assange, but in his case, Wikileaks, was at least embarrassing to our government. Snowden, on the other hand, did us the favor of showing us that our sovereignty was being invaded. And what if we had given Snowden asylum? If the US had objected, we would have cited similar acts of the US itself. If Ecuador, Venezuela or Somalia can stand up to US pressure, why does India look so supine?
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:10:42 +0000
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